The CC-PNC group of the Council of Tenerife has celebrated that the Court of Accounts of Spain has archived the procedure on the purchase of the Geneto land carried out by the Scientific and Technological Park of Tenerife (PCTT) after endorsing the Public Prosecutor’s Office that it “is duly justified, both for the form and for the price paid”.
The nationalist spokesman, Carlos Alonso, has indicated that the file confirms what they have been saying “from the beginning, which is that Geneto’s land was well appraisedthe market price was paid and there was no patrimonial damage to the Science and Technology Park of Tenerife”.
“The acquisition of the land had a clear purpose, which was linked to innovation, and was that the University of La Laguna could boost its technology transfer capacity because the land is very close to the Anchieta campus“, indicated Carlos Alonso, who hopes that this decision of the Court of Accounts of Spain, which has a favorable report from the Prosecutor’s Office, will allow” to speed up the criminal procedure and conclude favorably, since the purchase of the land was made properly and in accordance with the law“.
Persecution by the PSOE
Carlos Alonso has assured that throughout this mandate “there has been a persecution by the PSOEwhich has wanted to stain and deteriorate the image of the political activity of the Canary Coalition”. “Now it has been shown that everything was a persecution and that the courts use it to do politics,” he added.
The PSOE and Ciudadanos had denounced this operation in October 2020 for the possible commission of various crimes by the previous leaders under the report by the CEO of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER), Elena Rodríguez, and the Controller. However, both the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Spanish Court of Accounts point out that the purchase was made legally, without detriment to public funds and without property damage to the Cabildo company, for which reason they have decided to file the procedure.
In that sense, the fiscal Ministery shares the conclusion of the delegate instructor of the procedure on “the absence of accounting responsibility for the absence of impairment of public funds”. And this, based on considering that “the acquisition of land is duly justified, both by the form and by the price paid.”
